St. Wenceslas Nocturne

5. 7. 2025 | 22:00

St. Wenceslas Nocturne

5. 7. 2025 | 22:00

Piarist Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross

A screening of the first Czechoslovakian epic film “Saint Wenceslas” – a silent film by Jan Stanislav Kolár from 1929 – accompanied by Vojtěch Semerád’s vocal ensemble Cappella Mariana. This unconventional St. Wenceslas nocturne will be an artistic tribute to the main patron saint of the Czech nation.

Lord, have mercy on us
Hymn Saint Wenceslas

Guillaume de Machaut
He!Mors

Antiphon Laudes canens Davidicas
Organum Mors
Hymn Lux vera lucis radium
Hymn O felicem genitricem

Guillaume de Machaut
Inviolata genitrix

Kyrie Fons bonitatis
Hymn Martir Dei Wenceslaus
Motet Brumans est mors
Responsorium Media vita
Lay Otep myrhy
Planctus Quis dabit
Hymn Quae es ista
Lay Ach homo fragilis

Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz
Prefulcitam expolitam

Codex Faenza
Carmina Burana
Speciálník Codex – Our dear Saint Wenceslas
Sequentia Dies irae

Johannes Ockeghem
Requiem aeternam

CAPPELLA MARIANA
Hana BLAŽÍKOVÁ | soprano, gothic harp
Jakub KYDLÍČEK | flutes
Vojtěch SEMERÁD | tenor, violin, artistic director
Tomáš LAJTKEP | tenor, trombone
Ondřej HOLUB | tenor
Jaromír NOSEK | bass

organiser's web
IMF Smetana Litomyšl